Every salesman makes mistakes. We might believe (and the people we’re chatting up) otherwise but we aren’t unfathomable.
Here are 14 mistakes every salesman has made –
1) Confusing the decision maker for the secretary
2) Getting too drunk with our customers
3) Offending them
4) Then failing to make amends
5) Just failing to keep in contact with good customers in general
6) Not being able to handle a simple objection
7) And then thinking up the perfect comeback 4 hours later
8) Doing zero preparation before a big sales pitch
9) Crashing, burning and being humiliated…
10) … then lying to your sales manager by telling him it went alright
11) Attempting to chat up the receptionist (even if you were just joking)
12) And being soaking wet, having had to walk from the car to the receptionist in the poring rain
13) And being late for the meeting anyway because you didn’t account for all the traffic
14) The biggest mistakes that all salespeople have made at some point in their careers through is not being grateful that you have one of the oldest, most prestigious, financially rewarding jobs on the planet
